GPs not getting promised £80m IT funds
GP representatives claim that PCTs are failing to fund IT upgrades for GP practices despite receiving £80m of GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) funding. The BMA’s General Practitioner Committee has told local medical committees to find out how the money is being spent after practices contacted the GPC because their PCT refused to fund an […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 28.03.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 28 March 2008 featuring supplier news and appointments. Supplier news Care nurses to get online help Nurses making more than 75,000 medical visits a year, to enable often seriously ill people to be cared for at home, are being given hi-tech help by University of […]
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Humana launches commissioning simulator tool
Gloucestershire PCT pilots the Commissioning Simulator A new computer-based simulation programme has been launched by Humana Europe, which replicates the three-year business cycle of a PCT and could influence future commissioning. The commissioning tool, which is being offered to all strategic health authorities (SHAs) by the Department of Health, is said to provide a risk-free […]
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CfH says SCR audit trails ‘clunky’
Connecting for Health has acknowledged the audit trail facility in the first Summary Care Record pilots ‘has been clunky’, after minutes from the board of Bolton PCT expressed concerns over the functionality. Problems are reported with the time required to review audit trail alerts – created by the SCR system. In official minutes, a member of Bolton PCT’s SCR board branded […]
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Choose and Book release four due 12 April
Release four of Choose and Book will go live on 12 April, delivering the government’s policy of free choice at referral, the Department of Health has announced. Guidance from the DH sets out how the Choose and Book software has been changed to deliver the Free Choice agenda and the likely impact on referrers and […]
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Nottingham to mainstream telehealth
Nottingham City PCT has agreed to mainstream telehealth with the purchase of new monitors from specialists Tunstall, following a successful year-long pilot. The PCT will use Tunstall’s Genesis DM monitors to monitor around 800 people each year with long-term conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure. The decision to mainstream telehealth […]
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Humana issue pedometers in Stoke
Humana Europe is partnering with Stoke-on-Trent PCT to help local patients lose weight and reduce onset of obesity affected conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes, using electronic pedometers. The pedometers, which track the number of steps subjects take throughout the day, are programmed to meet the needs of each patient and enable the user […]
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GPSoC contracts due for completion this month
Connecting for Health (CfH) is predicting that all GP practices using eligible systems under the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) initiative will have been switched to GPSoC contracts by the end of this month. The IT agency says primary care system suppliers have issued 400 “call-off” agreements to PCTs which must be signed by both […]
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Johnson steps up pressure on 0844 numbers
Health secretary Alan Johnson has stepped up the pressure on practices using 0844 telephone numbers as campaigners draw up a list of more than 800 surgeries with such numbers. The health secretary, who is MP for Hull and Hessle West, criticised the use of 0844 numbers in his local paper as the Department of Health’s […]
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Plans for limited Lorenzo delivery slip
Dates for the implementation of new Lorenzo clinical software in parts of two NHS trusts are continuing to slip.
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